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Originally Posted by Excaliber

I think it stems from a sincere motivation to grant access to health care to a segment of the population that has been denied such coverage.

Flawed though it may be, I hope it does pass. We really do need to address the issue of to many American's being denied quality health care for one reason or another. THAT is simply not acceptable in a civilized society.

I am not sure where you live, but I am sure it is in a liberal region of the country. Are your citizens falling over dead every day because they are denied medical care? I can promise that no one in Georgia is denied health care.

Social Security and Medicare is so well managed by the federal government; it is underfunded by ~$10 trillion. The Post Office is so well run for parcel delivery that two companies (UPS and FedEx) have grown into huge companies.

Passage of the health-care bill will be, for the administration, a catastrophic victory. If it is voted through in time for the State of the Union Address, as President Obama hopes, half the chamber will rise to their feet and cheer. They will be cheering their own demise.

If health care does not pass, it will also be a disaster, but only for the administration, not the country. Critics will say, "You didn't even waste our time successfully."

What a blunder this thing has been, win or lose, what a miscalculation on the part of the president. The administration misjudged the mood and the moment. Mr. Obama ran, won, was sworn in and began his work under the spirit of 2008—expansive, part dreamy and part hubristic. But as soon as he was inaugurated ,the president ran into the spirit of 2009—more dug in, more anxious, more bottom-line—and didn't notice. At the exact moment the public was announcing it worried about jobs first and debt and deficits second, the administration decided to devote its first year to health care, which no one was talking about. The great recession changed everything, but not right away.

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